Banned Books Week

[annemehr]

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<BamaJenny12 at y...> wrote:
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>   From: Belinda 
>   To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 11:18 AM
>   Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Banned Books Week
> 
> 
>   Sept. 25 - Oct. 1 is Banned Books Week
> 
>   Here is a link to the ALA Banned and Challenged books page.
>   http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challenged
>   banned.htm
> 
>   Scroll down and peruse the lists of most challenged authors and 
>   books.  Jo is in good company, don't you think?

Just wanted to point out that this is a list of the most frequently
*challenged* books, i.e. people wanted them banned. It doesn't
actually tell you whether or not they actually were banned, or from
how many places.

Oddly enough, my kids seem to be limiting themselves where I wouldn't.
 One daughter avoided a manga for nearly a year because Yugi swears in
it. Granted, that does seem OOC to someone who has seen him on TV...

Does anyone know how widespread the banning of books acutally is?  At
least in our society, if a kid can't get a book from the school
library, at least we can get it for him or her from the public
library, bookstore, or the internet.

A funny (yet sad) thought: more good literature is undoubtedly kept
away from us because publishing companies didn't believe in its
marketablility than was ever banned from library shelves.  To be sure,
there is more self- and electronic- publishing of books these days,
but it is still not very widespread. I've never got a book that way.

Just a few thoughts to mark the week (a week for thinking if there
ever was one).

Annemehr
hoping JKR is more proud of sticking to her guns than upset by the few
detractors